Irish Traditional Music Archive - new online catalogue

The Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann, (73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2) is a national reference archive and resource centre for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. It is a public not-for-profit facility which is open, free of charge, to anyone with an interest in the contemporary and historical artforms of Irish traditional music.

You can search ITMA's online catalogue, which currently reflects its holding of commercially published materials (sound recordings, printed materials & visual materials) and photographs.Thecatalogue now contains some 55,000 catalogue records. These records cover (in brief format) the currentITMA holdings of

• commercial sound recordings (cylinders, 78s, SPs, EPs, LPs, cassettes, and CDs);

• printed materials (song & instrumental music collections, studies, tutors, theses, reference works, sheet music, ballad sheets, chapbooks, periodicals, contextual publications, and some 2,500 festival and event programmes);

• visual materials (photographic prints, postcards and other still images, and commercial VHSs and DVDs).

More detailed records, including contents, are available in the Archive.

New material will continue to be systematicallyadded to the online catalogue.

Not yet included in the online catalogue are non-commercial field and private recordings, articles from periodicals,offprints, manuscripts, artefacts, digital photographs, the remaining festivaland event programmes, and library ephemera such as posters and leaflets.

Muchof this material however is covered by the ITMA in-house catalogue which isfreely available to visitors.